MUST LIVE IN LA. Applicants currently living outside LA metro area will not be considered.
Frank Collective partners with brands to find new and innovative ways to use storytelling and digital media to reshape categories. We specialize in branded creative that starts with strategy and identity through web content and marketing, branding and naming, website creation, packaging, collateral, advertising, and video content for global and upstart brands.

Frank Collective is currently looking for a freelance Executive Producer to manage the production of select client projects. Tentative dates: November 4 through December 20. This is a freelance to contract position based in our Downtown Los Angeles office.

Your role at Frank Collective will be to facilitate and oversee all production in the LA office. Your direct report will be our Managing Director. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure LA productions and staff are following protocol, reporting up, running projects efficiently and within budget and schedule, and supporting new business as needed. You will work in tandem with the Creative Director in LA to ensure the creative team’s needs are met and that creative and production work seamlessly together. You will also be tasked with being the sole producer when the need arises.

• Manage LA production staff

• Guide regular check ins to understand production staff’s project status.

• Ensure appropriate production staffing on all LA projects.

• Step in as needed if production staff has an issue or needs to escalate a problem.

• Ensure LA projects are on schedule and alert Managing Director and Founder + CEO to any delays.

• Participate in client presentations when required.

• Be comfortable presenting to senior management as well as clients, be able to read a room and react accordingly.

• Report on issues, tasks, and status of production staff and LA projects to Managing Director.

• Be available for after hours emergencies to help direct problem solving and alert officers.

• Sit in pitch meetings as a production representative.

• Review and approve wrap sheets.

• Attend relevant events (conferences, client dinners/lunches, team building outings, etc).

• Have a top-line understanding of all LA projects on a daily basis.

• Ensure SOWs are accurate from a production and process standpoint before they get passed on for final approval to Managing Director/CEO.

• Assist in scoping projects and creative concepting.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Ideal candidates have had 5+ years production experience in an agency environment.

• Must be adept at Google Apps (especially Mail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets)

• Must be adept at Apple products, especially Keynote.

• Experience with InDesign and/or Photoshop, Final Cut and Adobe Premiere a plus.

• Must have previous experience in project management or production.

• This is a freelance position. Must be able to work onsite in our Downtown Los Angeles office Monday - Friday 9:00am-5:00pm during the freelance period.

• Must be eligible to work in the United States.

• Must have completed a Bachelor's degree or commensurate experience.